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Bacchanalia
Sign in to savethumb|A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term, [[Nicolas Poussin, 1632–1633]]
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- Instance of
- holiday
- Named after
- Bacchus
- Image
- Nicolas Poussin - Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan - WGA18284.jpg
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term, [[Nicolas Poussin, 1632–1633]]
The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded popular Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC. Like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites. They seem to have been popular and well-organised throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula.
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